Quito, located next to Pichincha volcano and declared by UNESCO Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, is one of the more important historic cities of Latin America, was founded the 6 of December of 1534 by Sebastián de Benalcázar. With great architectonic beauty, it contains churches and convents constructed at the time of the Colony. Of classic and barroca architecture, the temples show the great sobriety whereupon they were raised. The Metropolitan Cathedral, located in front of the Seat of Independence, is one of the constructions of greater historic and architectonic importance, as well as San Francisco, San Agustín, Santo Domingo, El Sagrario, La Merced, San Sebastián, Santa Barbara, San Blas, among others.

The old Quito, conserves the narrow and lofty stone streets, reflects in all its route the Spanish influence in the facades of its houses, its balconies, central ceilings of roofing tile, thicknesses columns and backyards. Another zone of colonial style, outside the old downtown, is the district of Guápulo, to the Eastern flank of the city, where is the sanctuary of the Virgin of Guápulo, oldest of Ecuador.

But in addition, the Ecuadorian capital is a modern metropolis with a hotel infrastructure that counts on the most important chains of the world, innumerable restaurants with national and international gastronomy, commercial and shopping centers, theaters, galeries, museums, convention centers and everything what the most demanding tourist requires, its airport Mariscal Sucre is one of the main international terminals in the country.

During December are celebrated the city party, with run of bulls, election of the queen, popular concerts of national and international music, dances, gastronomy festivals, fire pyrotechnicses games, and munch more. By the way, in this Capital they reside and they vacations the most beautiful women originating from all the points of Ecuador and also from all the world.

Centro Històrico. Old and Colonial legacy. -

In the middle of the majestic Ecuadorian Andes, to few Kilometers of the Equinoccial line, is based El Centro Històrico de Quito, with one more a history older than the one of its own constructions. In its dominion it reunites authentic architectonic jewels that give a stirring enchantment it. To take a walk by its spotted streets is a requirement to know and to understand the culture of the mestization.

La Calle de las Siete Cruces. Old simbol indigenous. -

The seven crossings of the street Garcia Moreno are seven symbols of the cristment, seven histories of faith, seven episodes of a city that in few decades underwent enormous transformations: of a site of indigenous commerce with a great geographic influence, to a project of capital Inca, to be soon a colonial administrative center, the Real Audiency of Quito, and finally the capital of the republic of Ecuador.

If the tourist could divide itself and at the same time to watch towards the north from the hill of Panecillo where it is the statue of the Virgin of Quito and towards the south from the Basìlica del Voto National, in the ends of the Historical Center, she would see with clarity the footpath that unites both elevations today and for 1,500 years. This footpath is the Street of Seven Cruces, at the moment well-known like Garcìa Moreno street, a route identified by the Incas to communicate to the Panecillo with the San Juan or Yavirac hill, hills that could have been centers of adoration and observation of the God Sun and the Goddess Moon, besides to serve like military forts.

During this route, the traveller will be able to touch to the stones Incas who today maintain to the Palace of Government; he will see the first church of Quito, the majestic Metropolitan Cathedral; he will find the Mampara (small door within the church) more beautiful of the city in the temple El Sagrario; he will enjoy a significant sample of the daily life of Quito in La Plaza Grande; and he will see the baroque temple of La Compañìa, one of the wonders that took place throughout the world in the baroque period. El Centro Històrico de Quito lives a height that is reflected in the state of conservation of its monuments, the dynamism of the space, and the visible presence of private investment. Thus, near the Plaza Grande or Great Seat, you will be able to find some international restaurants with sophisticated menus.

Mirador de Guàpulo. Artesany and traditions. - 

In Guápulo, to cross the stone small streets, to walk by its green gardens and perrons, until arriving at the seat are an unusual adventure within the great city. At this level, is perfect to relax and to enjoy the spectacular gastronomy that offers the Mirador de Guápulo, typical food and other international, while it admires the wonderful landscape of the houses inlaid in the hole, that finishes in the colorful valley and extraordinary montains and volcanos of the horizon.

The warm atmosphere which they provide the kettles of firewood in its ample penhouse and the inside, is propitious to offer a romantic and unforgettable evening date, while it advances the night and the small place full of tourists and musical notes.

El Panecillo. Emblematic and artistic hill. -

This natural elevation was baptized thus by its similarity with a small bread (pan), it is elevated in the middle of the city like a natural viewpoint from which it is appraised the Andean beauty of the zone and the urban disposition of the city. The knoll received its qualifying one by the Spanish conquerors, but it thinks that its authentic name is "Shungoloma" that in quichua means "hill of the heart".

The hill of the Panecillo, with three thousand meters of altitude on the level of the sea, is a reference for the inhabitants of Quito because it marks the division between the south and downtown and still maintains the legacy of the incas time, because there is La Olla del Panecillo, a circule cistern of eight meters of depth that was used for the irrigation of sembríos. In the Panecillo, you can breathe the Andean air that inspired to illustrious poets and to enjoy a placid see to the colonial city that is lost between the complicated modern architecture.

Museum of the City. Oldest of the Country. -

This is the oldest civil construction of Ecuador. There was based on 1565 the Real Hospital of Misercordia and Caridad then soon San Juan de Dios. The Museum of the City is one of the spaces of greater cultural activity of the city, and its permanent sample presents a review of the daily life of Quito, from its first inhabitants to century XIX. This set of exceptional works and daily objects is complemented by intangible manifestations of the urban culture: the privacy, the anecdotes, the legend and traditions, the scents and the flavors, the dress, the norms and prohibitions social, the offices and the celebrations.

Within the centennial walls of which it was the hospital San Juan de God, the Museum recovers the old functions of solidarity and service to the community for which the building originally was constructed.

Until the more studious people about local history, they forget that all the zone the park the Carolina was until near time a great lagoon. And it is that the more concurred park of Quito at the moment is located in the economic nucleus of the north of the city. Surrounded by commercial centers, hotels, banks and ample avenues, there are not remembers about of the aquatic past of the park of the Carolina except for the nice little lagoon. This it is the perfect place to make sport alonely or massively, because there the followers of fitness in an intense weekly ritual join themselves.

Or if your preference is the meditation or yoga, the Carolina is the point of contact of gurús of the city that from very early hours takes advantage of the clean air the park to look for inner silence. The Carolina has so many facets that the tourist can take a large day of rest, going of the strolls to horse to the gardening club, to the Vivarium, Botanic Garden and its exhibition of amphibians, or can be added to the unexpected sport days, soccer, básquet or volleybol that throughout forms permanent with volunteers during the day.

Parque Metropolitano. Lung of the Capital. -

Large and thin hundreds of eucalyptus trees are balanced to the wind in the Metropolitan Park. This is the greatest green space of the city and is located on the hills of Quito with a see privileged of valleys to the east of the city, the bulk from Pichincha volcano to the West, and the volcanos that surround to Quito towards the south (Cotopaxi, Altares, Illinizas) and towards the north (Cayambe).

In they inhabit some species of birds and mamiferes, like squirrels, hares, rabbits, etc. Its a perfect place to camping and to oxygenate the organism of normal urban polution. During the summer, between the months of June and August, when the days are followed as sunnier and cleared, the Metropolitan Park it is a wonderful viewpoint of the Andean landscape that surrounds to the city of Quito.

Barrio La Mariscal. Tourist and Bohemy. -

When speaking of tourism in Quito it is impossible not to remember the Mariscal, tourist town for excellence, where it will find citizens of all the races, ideas, cultures, nationalities and styles of life. Enjoy of a long walk by its paved paths while it visits the innumerable stores where will discover the most ingenious diversity of articles done of native materials, paintings, jewels, music and Ecuadorian Literature, textiles, licores and cigarettes, gastronomy worldwide and an unfinished variety of peculiar articles, in this place your more imperceptible whims and fantasìas could be satiated, here you would find the unexpected thing.

Enjoy besides of the explosive Quito nights, let s getting in the festive atmosphere and in the joy characteristic of his inhabitants, in special of feminine ones, let s visit discotecs, salsotecs, casinos, cybers, Bohemian concerts, jazz, bars with live music, cultural presentations of theater, coffees, restaurants, folkloric dances and contemporary, spectacular symphonic concerts, are so single some examples of the menu that offer the Quito nights in this ross zone of the Capital.

Volcàn Pichincha. Gigant Natural Monument. -

The Guagua Pichincha is a magnificent volcano of 4,787 meters on the level of the sea. A wonderful geographic miracle that a very special flavor to the city of Quito with its extensive forests of pine gives him and eucalyptus which they are mixed with the Andean desert covered with exotic flowers multicolors until arriving at the impressive crater in his top, which you will be able to crown in a few hours of ascent and to delight with the solemn landscape of the city and its mountainous environs.

El Teleférico.-Very hight entertainment.-

El Teleférico, "cableway" is a transport installation that works according to the principle of the swing. The robustness and little maintenance of the structure have been determining factors in the election for the constructions located in high mountain, in diverse parts of the world.

The project cableway of the city of Quito already is a reality, has been constructed in the skirts of the RuccuPichincha volcano. This tourist attraction is one of most spectacular and without precedents in the Capital. Is located on the Western avenue to the height of the Gasca avenue, from this great work can be enjoyed the beauty of the city altogether, the valleys, the crowned snow mountains and all it acclimate natural and ecological.

Additionally we found several zones of dispersion and entertainment here, like a great park of fun with mechanics games, an ample commercial stroll, restaurants and much more, in addition areas where the art and the culture are promoted, the church, the bath, the pecera, the viewpoint, etc. in general, an enormous site of family integration, a great place with attractive for national and foreign visitors, very seen to other sites of fun in the great capitals from countries at world-wide level.